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This is the very first music that I heard on Saturday, August 21, and it was glorious. Schubert famously and tragically died young, at 31, possibly from complications arising from syphilis, yet in his short …

Mitsuko Uchida studied piano as a young child, but her more serious musical training began in earnest after her family moved to Vienna when Uchida was 12 years old. There she enrolled in the Vienna …

In addition to the nearly 500 pieces of dance music he published, Johann Strauss, Jr. scored important successes as a composer of operetta and light opera. “Die Fledermaus” has proved the most enduring. Fortunately cushioned …

From Mozart’s letters to his father we know that in 1778, during his stay in Paris, he wrote a Sinfonia concertante for flute, oboe, horn, bassoon and orchestra, for a quartet of wind instrumentalists likewise …

The Brahms Concerto was first performed in Leipzig Germany on New Year’s Day 1879 by Joseph Joachim, who composed the cadenza that is still played by many violinists today. Never fond of waste, Brahms presents …